Sentences with phrase «in liberal states»

For many utility executives, clean energy has been an annoyance, a demonstration project to appease enviros or a concern for colleagues in liberal states.

Bruce A. Ackerman, in Social Justice in the Liberal State (Yale University Press, 1980), arguing for an astringently secular, rational model, is faithful to the framers at least in the proposition that «nobody has the right to vindicate political authority by asserting a privileged insight into the moral universe which is denied to the rest of us.»

In fact... hate crimes are higher in liberals states than southern ones.

The tendency to emphasize the private, particularly the economic side of life in the liberal state, undermines the public participation essential to a republic.

We live in a liberal state.

sanbikinoraion: when I wrote the above I was thinking about liberal egalitarianism as a general philsophy and I had in mind what I see as the «big three» works of contemporary liberal egalitarianism: Rawls» A Theory of Justice, Dworkin's Sovereign Virtue and earlier, related essays, and Ackerman's Social Justice in the Liberal State.

Long made a point of invoking the night's honoree, freshman Republican congressman Bob Turner, as an inspiration to her as a conservative candidate in a liberal state.

But these victories in New York — a minimum wage hike, paid - family leave — should be slam dunks in a liberal state like New York.

Flanagan, a 57 - year - old trade - directory publisher who once had aspirations of running for office, is now a study in conservative grassroots activism, illustrating both the way in which Tea Party groups can figure into policy fights even in a liberal state like New York, and how they maximize the influence they have with public officials.

About... A conservative bastion in the liberal state of California is difficult to find.

Not exact matches

In some cases, isolated liberal cities and perhaps some blue - tinged neighboring areas could become «city states.»

This is, in a nutshell, McConnell's case for reelection: that as Kentucky's heavyweight in Washington, he'll thwart the assault liberals are waging not just on the health care system and the coal industry but, more broadly, on the state's way of life.

The Virginia residents challenging their state districting plan said the lower court ignored a 2015 Supreme Court decision about Alabama in which Justice Anthony Kennedy joined the four more liberal justices to order a review of state legislative districts.

What attracted me to the book was an interview I read with Vance in which he described how liberal whites went so far to ensure they never offended any people of color or people with different sexual orientations but were quick to pass judgment on people from flyover states.

More than anyone else, Graham built evangelicalism into a force that rivaled liberal Protestantism and Roman Catholicism in the United States.

Anxiety over further losses to the AfD, especially at next year's state elections in Bavaria, has stopped Merkel imposing her more liberal world view on her uppity junior partners.

Earlier this week, Clinton spoke out against the Trans - Pacific Partnership, the 12 - nation trade pact that she boosted as secretary of state and that liberals in the Democratic Party have vehemently opposed.

While pot used to belong to Democrats and liberals, marijuana legalization has found a safe haven and logistical home in state's rights, bending the legalization effort to Republican and Libertarian sensibilities.

They are increasingly concerned that, aside from the very liberal Bernie Sanders, who could be approaching his ceiling in the early states, there is no backup if something blows up — no Jimmy Garoppolo to step in while Brady is suspended for four games.

It costs about 2.4 % lower to insure a rental in Liberal versus the average for the state.

In what appears to be a very liberal allowance for equity crowdfunding the financial authorities state in the public documenIn what appears to be a very liberal allowance for equity crowdfunding the financial authorities state in the public documenin the public document:

Quebec's Liberal government adopted the requirement in 2011 that boards of state - owned enterprises include an equal number of women and men, thereby legislating «gender parity» for that group.

Liberals, as part of privatizing push, gave a $ 324 million contract to a firm with a history of controversy in five states.

I live in a very red state, but very liberal city and I enjoy a low cost of living for now (home prices are on the rise), high salary, and diverse population.

He spent more than $ 60 million to win election in 2000 to the United States Senate from New Jersey on a liberal platform.

In the budgets presented by the previous Liberal government, it was clearly stated that the Contingency Reserve was not to be used to finance new policy initiatives.

In theory, there could be appetite in a number of liberal - dominated states, from New Jersey to Connecticut to Hawaii to New York (where Republicans control the State Senate, but only with the consent of a dissident faction of Democrats who might back this changeIn theory, there could be appetite in a number of liberal - dominated states, from New Jersey to Connecticut to Hawaii to New York (where Republicans control the State Senate, but only with the consent of a dissident faction of Democrats who might back this changein a number of liberal - dominated states, from New Jersey to Connecticut to Hawaii to New York (where Republicans control the State Senate, but only with the consent of a dissident faction of Democrats who might back this change).

And my liberal friends look at that and they say, «If we had not created this halfway measure of health security, we would have what every other country has,» which seems to work well in other places, which is a government - run system where health protection insurance is guaranteed in some way or another, the exact structures differ, but by the state.

We are witnessing an assault by the national security state and its liberal media on a President of the United States that is unprecedented... What we are witnessing is the determination of the national security state to keep their prized «Russian Threat» in its assigned role as the Number One Threat to the US.

OTTAWA — In a letter to an employer in his Ontario riding, a Liberal MP says his own government is wrongly invoking the Charter of Rights and Freedoms on its controversial Canada Summer Jobs attestation, and calls the whole thing «regrettable» and a «lamentable state of affairs.&raquIn a letter to an employer in his Ontario riding, a Liberal MP says his own government is wrongly invoking the Charter of Rights and Freedoms on its controversial Canada Summer Jobs attestation, and calls the whole thing «regrettable» and a «lamentable state of affairs.&raquin his Ontario riding, a Liberal MP says his own government is wrongly invoking the Charter of Rights and Freedoms on its controversial Canada Summer Jobs attestation, and calls the whole thing «regrettable» and a «lamentable state of affairs.»

The defeat of the Laurier - led Liberal government in 1911, after they had supported a free trade agreement with the United States, had disappointed western farmers.

His website states that he is the co-founder of the Decade of Excellence Committee, which paid for large billboards thanking Mr. Harper for his service in office after the Liberal Party's victory in the October 2015 election.

The head of the Liberal Democratic Party in Japan, Shinzo Abe, stated that he wanted the Bank of Japan to change More...

Will the Liberals promise to roll back immigration legislation and regulations that will stop the formation of two classes of immigrants from becoming a reality in Canada that increasingly resembles that in the United States?

In short, the Liberals would have to ditch almost their entire platform to hit their own stated fiscal targets.

We believe the BC Liberal policies on GHG emissions are in line with the stated positions of the GVBOT, especially their recommitment to revenue neutrality.

SNC - Lavalin Group Inc. is pressing Canada's new Liberal government to adopt corporate corruption settlement deals like those in place in the United Kingdom and the United States, saying federal charges laid against the company are hurting its ability to compete against rivals in Group of 7 countries.

As President Donald Trump's recent $ 60 billion - a-year trade tariffs against China have made abundantly clear, there has been growing discontent in the United States with Beijing's failure to conform to liberal economic and democratic norms.

They are communitarians, that is, «if philosophical liberals are those who believe that all our problems can be solved by autonomous individuals, a market economy, and a procedural state, whereas communitarians believe that more substantive ethical identities and a more active participation in a democratic polity are necessary for the functioning of any decent society.»

The ideal Hobbesian / liberal state needs this indifference to the supernatural in order to buttress obedience to the state.

Far from being a simple matter of what the «neutral liberal state should do in public matters,» then, public law is for Sullivan the crucial tool of social transformation.

In between lie the «conservatives,» who combine private tolerance of homosexuals with public disapproval of homosexuality; and the «liberals,» who speak a language of victimhood and look to the state to enforce private tolerance.

In response to Pope Francis» message on the evils of love of money, Wasilla Barbie (aka sarah palin) stated she was «taken aback by the pope's liberal statements», rush limbaugh has called the pope a «Marxist» and stuart varney publicly rejected the Pope outright, saying he simply has to «go to church to save my soul».

Union Theological Seminary (UTS) became one of the leading centers of LIBERAL Christianity in the United States.

I'm an Obama - volunteer, liberal Democrat, separation of church and state, Jewish mom, master's degree in counseling - holder who's worked with Special Olympics athletes and other special needs kids.

The Liberal Leagues attempted to give legal effect to their heterodox vision of religion under the slogan «separation of church and state,» and in 1876 they proposed their own constitutional amendment.

In fact, the Blaine Amendments are among the clearest examples in the nation's history of a state establishment of religion — and the only reason they have not been recognized as such is that they establish a theologically liberal vision of religioIn fact, the Blaine Amendments are among the clearest examples in the nation's history of a state establishment of religion — and the only reason they have not been recognized as such is that they establish a theologically liberal vision of religioin the nation's history of a state establishment of religion — and the only reason they have not been recognized as such is that they establish a theologically liberal vision of religion.

Given that Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's ruling Liberal - National Coalition has consistently stated it wants to hold a referendum on the issue rather than pass it in parliament, it's unlikely a change in marriage law will now happen for the foreseeable future.

In their view, the American political experiment is liberal to its rotten core, and Baxter in particular thinks the very core of the core is the First Amendment that pretends the state is «neutral» to religion when in fact it is an insidious instrument for taking Christianity captive to provide «legitimation» for a capitalist, consumerist, warmongering societIn their view, the American political experiment is liberal to its rotten core, and Baxter in particular thinks the very core of the core is the First Amendment that pretends the state is «neutral» to religion when in fact it is an insidious instrument for taking Christianity captive to provide «legitimation» for a capitalist, consumerist, warmongering societin particular thinks the very core of the core is the First Amendment that pretends the state is «neutral» to religion when in fact it is an insidious instrument for taking Christianity captive to provide «legitimation» for a capitalist, consumerist, warmongering societin fact it is an insidious instrument for taking Christianity captive to provide «legitimation» for a capitalist, consumerist, warmongering society.

The other theme, regularly expressed by those on the right in our politics, is to blame everything on the failures of «Great Society liberals,» to chalk the situation up to the follies of big government and big spending, to see the problem as the legacy of a tragically misconceived welfare state.